pm-spec-writing

pm-spec-writing is a skill for Claude Code from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 137 tokens per session (2,068 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to turning a rough idea, feature request, bug report, or problem into a clear brief that a developer or coding agent can build. It covers scope, constraints, success measures, and acceptance criteria—the conditions that define when the work is complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write feature specifications and product requirements, file actionable bugs, define acceptance criteria, prioritize requests, and split initiatives into shippable increments.
Why use it?
It removes ambiguity before implementation starts, so people do not have to guess what should be built or how it will be judged. It also helps break large work into smaller deliverable pieces.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the rampstack-skills plugin — 103 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write feature specifications and product requirements, file actionable bugs, define acceptance criteria, prioritize requests, and split initiatives into shippable increments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rampstackco/claude-skills/pm-spec-writing
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill pm-spec-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rampstack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 103 skills.

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Per session 137 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,068 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00137 $0.02068
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01034
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00414
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00207

Measured 6d ago against content hash 17c08255d5ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-spec-writing scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/pm-spec-writing/SKILL.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PM Spec Writing

Take an idea (often vague) and turn it into a specification a developer or AI agent can actually build from. Stack-agnostic. Works for new features, bug fixes, content changes, or infrastructure work.


When to use

  • Translating an idea into a buildable feature spec
  • Writing a PRD or product requirement document
  • Filing a bug report that someone else can act on
  • Scoping a project before kickoff
  • Prioritizing a backlog of feature requests
  • Writing acceptance criteria for an existing feature
  • Breaking a large initiative into shippable increments

When NOT to use

  • Quarterly or annual planning across multiple initiatives (use roadmap-planning)
  • Code review or debugging existing code (use code-review-web)
  • Design decisions for a feature already specced (use design-standards)
  • User research to validate an idea (use ux-research)

Required inputs

  • The idea, request, or problem being addressed
  • The audience or user affected
  • Any existing constraints (stack, deadlines, dependencies)
  • The success metric (how will you know it worked?)

If the idea is vague, the workflow's first step is clarification. Do not write specs around vagueness.


The framework: 4 phases

Every PM workflow follows the same arc. The phases are universal even if the specific outputs vary.

Phase 1: Clarify the idea

Before any spec, answer four questions. If any answer is "I don't know," go back to the user.

  1. What user problem does this solve? Not "what does it do." The problem comes first; the feature is the proposed solution.
  2. Who specifically benefits? Be precise. "Users" is not specific. "First-time visitors who don't convert" is.
  3. What is the success metric? How will you know it worked? Pick one primary metric.
  4. Why now? What changed that makes this the right time to build it? If "nothing changed," it might not be the right time.

Phase 2: Scope by impact and effort

Plot every candidate idea on the impact/effort grid:

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 233 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A 17c08255d5ba

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pm-spec-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (832 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 2,068 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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